Innovation in Combustion Engines
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "I2: Energy and Combustion Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 April 2024) | Viewed by 748
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computational fluid dynamics (CFD); sprays; internal combustion engines; carbon-neutral fuels; hydrogen and ammonia; ignition and combustion stability
Interests: computational fluid dynamics (CFD); sprays; multiphase flows; internal combustion engines; fuels
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Dear Colleagues,
Over the last few decades, the internal combustion engine (ICE) scientific community and manufacturers have been investing large amount of resources in research to reduce emission levels and increase thermal efficiency of internal combustion engines. Competing technologies will contribute to pushing the boundaries of all available pathways, considering the fact that even the more optimistic scenarios for decarbonizing the transportation sector still foresee the dominance of energy worldwide coming from liquid fuels up to 2040. In this context, reducing the pollutants and CO2 emissions of ICEs is even more urgent and needed, because their relatively cheap but sophisticated technology will have a wide impact. Promising and advanced technological solutions have been suggested and explored to improve efficiency by 10-20% and reach clean and efficient combustion in internal combustion engines.
In this context, the carbon-neutral mobility strategy must be coupled with innovation in the design of more energy-efficient engines. The optimization of ICEs is still essential for future transportation and sustainable mobility, as they can help support the smooth transition to electric vehicles.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the modeling, application, control, and optimization of all types of internal combustion engines.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- Experimental and CFD activities on internal combustion engines;
- Fuel injection and combustion development using innovative fuels, such as carbon-neutral fuels (hydrogen, ammonia, etc.), E-fuels, and bio-fuels;
- Innovative ignition systems for improving combustion stability under lean and ultra-lean operation;
- Low-temperature combustion, and lean and clean combustion strategies for reduction of pollutant emissions;
- Activities from interdisciplinary fields which are relevant to the innovation in internal combustion engine technologies for future transportation.
Dr. Jacopo Zembi
Prof. Dr. Michele Battistoni
Prof. Dr. Carlo Nazareno Grimaldi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable mobility
- CFD modeling of internal combustion engines
- lean and clean combustion
- low-temperature combustion
- fuel injection
- carbon-neutral fuels
- hydrogen and ammonia for ICEs
- E-fuels and bio-fuels
- innovative ignition systems
- combustion stability
- optimization of fuel consumption
- pollutant emission reduction
- engine calibration and optimization
- hybrid powertrains
